Jean Shepherd Quotes

That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a kid.

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• I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Up
  • Dad
  • City

• I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Art
  • Hurt
  • Beliefs

• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Insult

• There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Live
  • Real
  • Care

• The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • House
  • Television
  • Tax

• If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Way
  • Step
  • British

• It's like the American democratic system. When you vote, even if your candidate doesn't win, you accept that democracy was in action. When people participate in a Tezos network, they're accepting that the democratic vote of the other coin holders will govern the way the protocol moves.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • People
  • American
  • Action

• America is addicted to wars of distraction.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • America
  • Wars
  • Distraction

• If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Time
  • Business
  • Game

• I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Home

• Who doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Know

• I definitely think there could be stricter teen driving laws.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Think
  • Driving
  • Teen

• It's very important to learn quick lessons from your failures, very important to recognize symptoms of failure pretty early, and it is very, very important to not to be attached too much to the idea - you have to know when to give up an idea.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Up
  • Important
  • Pretty

• Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Peace
  • Stop
  • Injustice

• I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Society
  • Actors
  • Secret

• I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Art
  • Inspire
  • Bores

• Everyone else is parsing it in terms of lowering the corporate income tax. Eliminate it. It's not that big of a generator of income, and it's a double tax. Get rid of it, and you would have an explosion of hiring.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • You
  • Everyone
  • Tax

• The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for - its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • People
  • God
  • Family

• I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Action

• The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.

  

  Dee Dee Myers
  • People
  • Family
  • Wonder

• There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge,Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Raven

• Pray to God and say the lines.

  

  Bette Davis
  • God
  • Lines
  • Pray

• The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Church

• That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a kid.

  

  Jean Shepherd